How to Use back room in a Sentence

back room

noun
  • British women in the back room.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2026
  • How will the Vikings round out the running back room?
    — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • There was unused equipment stored in the back room.
    — Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The back room, siphoned off for the event, was empty.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
  • As the evening wrapped up, my sister pulled me aside into a back room.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The four girls were killed and stripped of their clothing in a back room of the yogurt shop.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Around five kids play, and while each one is playing, the other kids wait in a back room.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But when the cops show up, Benedetto pulls out his gun and takes a hostage in the back room.
    — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • The back room indeed looks as though a parking lot was encased in four walls and a roof.
    — Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
  • The mechanics then drag her husband into a back room.
    — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
  • And yet, the artists are still here, and their music survives, cropping up in dingy basements and bar back rooms.
    — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Officers also heard a dog barking from a back room, and saw a duck walking around the house.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Payne has taken ownership of the running back room during spring camp.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Anyone who has ever worked in retail knows there’s something ominous about the back room of the store.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the entire Chiefs running-back room combined for just one.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Others have suggested that more help in the running back room could be a wise decision.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In a back room at the refinery, bags of coins and antique silver sets were waiting to be turned into bars.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Maps were drawn in back rooms to protect incumbents and punish opponents.
    — Larry Hogan, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In the back room were stacks upon stacks of toilet paper, diapers and paper towels.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Our evidence rests in the eight spindly tomato plants poking up from small containers next to a large window in our back room.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • The Miami Dolphins have found a new coach for one of their defensive back rooms.
    — Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In a back room, the director, a wiry man in his forties, fired off notes into a headset in Mandarin.
    — Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Strong has been a solid special teams player, but the running back room remains unsettled.
    — Zac Jackson, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • There are a lot of funny action sequences, not just the obstacle course, especially in the back room of the store.
    — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Five police officers interviewed her in a back room at customs, debating whether to send her home.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Acknowledgement is always the first step in addressing any problem and the running back room looks to be on the right track.
    — Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The back room of Flod’s studio is like a butcher’s walk-in fridge, where dozens more masks hang from the ceiling, each more outlandish than the last.
    — Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Employees put the woman into a back room for safety and ordered Walker to leave.
    — Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Library staff guided about half of the library visitors into a back room, locking the door so that the shooter could not get to them.
    — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
  • The Texas Longhorns have added a significant name to the running back room in the transfer portal.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026

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